Eden Prairie High School

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Eden Prairie High School
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Eden Prairie High School
17185 Valley View Road

Eden Prairie
,
(Hennepin County)
,
Minnesota

United States
Coordinates 44°52′20″N93°29′40″W / 44.87209°N 93.49431°W / 44.87209; -93.49431
Information
Former nameEden Prairie Senior High School
School type Public, high school
Established1923;101 years ago (1923)
PrincipalNathaniel Gibbs [1]
Teaching staff159.19 (FTE) (2021–22) [2]
Grades 9–12 [2]
Number of students2,811 (2021–22) [2]
Student to teacher ratio17.66 (2021–21) [2]
Color(s)  Red
  White
  Black
MascotEagle
Rival Edina High School
NewspaperThe Eyrie [3]
Website Official website OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
Eden Prairie High School

Eden Prairie High School (EPHS) (formerly Eden Prairie Senior High School) is a four-year public high school in Eden Prairie, Minnesota, United States established in 1923. The present high school opened in 1981 and was significantly added to in 1990, 1994 and 1997. It was named a Blue Ribbon School of Excellence in 1996 by the United States Department of Education. Eden Prairie High School is accredited by the North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools and the Minnesota Department of Education.

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Map of Minnesota with Eden Prairie highlighted

Demographics

In 2021–2022 Eden Prairie High School had 2,811 students. 53% of students were White, 17% were African American, 14% were Asian, 9% were Hispanic, and 6% were two or more races. [2]

Academics

The high school offers over 425 courses, many of which are electives. Language courses include Spanish, French, Sign Language, German and Chinese. Class size ranges from 29 to 34 students. [4]

Facilities

The school is divided into four wings on three floors. The North Wing is home to the auditorium, Performing Arts Center (PAC), Main Gym, small gym, machine shops, music classrooms and EagleVision television studios. The South Wing contains the Old Commons lunch room, science classrooms and labs, foreign language classrooms, a photography lab, and Special Services facilities. In the East Wing are the New or East Commons lunch room, math classrooms, social studies classrooms, and English classrooms. The West Wing is home of the business classrooms, technology classrooms and labs, health classrooms and economic classrooms. Each department has a resource center near the specific classrooms so that students can work near their teachers when necessary.

Student activities

Student activities include fine arts; academic teams such as Quiz Bowl, Knowledge Bowl, and Future Problem Solvers; Team 2502, a robotics team; a variety of clubs, including the Eyrie newspaper and eagLIT literary magazine; and both varsity and intramural sports. Eden Prairie boasts a wide variety of extracurricular activities including Band, Ceramics Sculpture, Chess Team, Chorus, Computer Arts, Dance, Drawing Painting, Orchestra, Math Team, Photography, Theater Drama, Bible Study, and Video Film Production. [5]

Athletics

Eden Prairie High School is a member of the Lake Conference in the Minnesota State High School League. In 2006, the football team was ranked by MaxPreps as the No. 11 team in the nation following a win in the 2006 State Championship. [6] In 2007, Sports Illustrated named Eden Prairie the top high school athletic program in Minnesota. [7] The high school was also recognized by Sports Illustrated as one of the Top Ten Athletic Programs in 2008–09. [8] In the 2001–02 school year, Eden Prairie's athletic budget was $1,460,433, the highest per capita of any high school in Minnesota. [9] Eden Prairie is the only high school in Minnesota to send a team (pom squad) to the UDA National Dance Team Championship, where they have claimed seven national titles (1996, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2009, 2010, 2011).[ citation needed ].

State championships
SeasonSportNumber of championshipsYear
Fall Soccer, boys'22002, 2011
Soccer, girls'22005, 2010
Cross country running, boys'12009
Cross country running, girls'31980, 2008, 2010
Football 111996, 1997, 2000, 2002, 2006, 2007, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2017
Volleyball 12011
Swimming and diving, girls'41996, 1997, 1998, 1999 [1]
Winter Alpine skiing, boys'12005
Nordic skiing, boys'31983, 1984, 2013
Hockey, boys'32009, 2011, 2021
Hockey, girls'32006, 2008, 2016
Competitive cheerleading team 42001, 2002, 2003, 2004
Dance team, girls'51994, 1995, 1996, 2002, 2003
Gymnastics, girls'51987, 1988, 1991, 1992, 2005
Swimming and diving, boys'72002, 2003, 2005, 2012, 2013, 2016,

2023

Drumline 72013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019
Quiz Bowl league61994, 1996, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2014
Spring Baseball 32004, 2010, 2017
Softball 12002
Badminton 12001
NAQT Quiz Bowl State52006, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2014
Mock trial 1 (not varsity)1996
Golf, boys'21999, 2013
Tennis, boys'12010
Track, boys'22008, 2010
Lacrosse, boys'4 [2] 2004, 2012, 2013, 2014
Lacrosse, girls'7 [2] 2001, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2015, 2016, 2017
Total86
  1. ^ The 1999 state championship resulted in a tie between Eden Prairie High School and Edina High School.
  2. ^ The Minnesota State High School League's first lacrosse tournaments for boys and girls were held in 2007. Prior to that year lacrosse was a U.S. Lacrosse Association certified club sport.

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